Axis Mundi.

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welcome to Straight White America Jesus. I am your host Dan Miller

associate professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College.

And we are hosted in partnership with the cap center at

UC SB that is University of California at Santa Barbara and I want to

welcome people who are listening to this next session of you're not

welcome here. Special series that looks at issues of identity and

politics, culture, what identity is, how it works, criticisms, so-called identity politics, and so on.

In our last session we took a look and said, okay, people decry identity politics and that this cuts across the political spectrum,

that politicians as different as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump.

What unites them all is they are critical of something that we could call identity politics or the role of identity in politics.

And I said what also unites them is that they appeal to identity in politics even as they are critical of it.

In today's session I want to carry that just a little bit further.

There's an old saying, and I will clean it up a little bit, or for the purposes of the podcast here,

that says opinions are like elbows and aholes, everybody has one.

Everybody has an identity.

And in fact, one of the things we'll be doing as we go along in this series is just sort of adding some

complexity in detail to the things that we talk about as we move along.

And one of the issues to which we'll return is this notion that we all have multiple identities.

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